The new America Singers had an amazing summer tour, with a wonderful, creative, loving, hard-working, cooperative, professional and committed bunch of Singers..God’s people, in God’s time, who were willing to be in God’s place in God’s time. What a place to be.

“We have high schools around where, within the last year, students have been arrested for trafficking other students through the school,” Denise Matthews, the women's minister at Magnolia Church in Riverside, said. “Seeing that it is happening here really put a fire under me that we need to do more about this.”

California Baptists will celebrate 75 years of ministry in the Golden State when they gather at Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield Oct. 27-28, for the 2015 California Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.